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This, courtesy of some northern crayon botherer!
@swanny853 - Have you got any pictures of it up, in situ?
I love seeing them up where they’re meant to be and I was so chuffed with how this looked when it came back from the printers on a big alloy plate.
Which then obviously begged the question; how do you transport a massive sheet of printed aluminium to the other end of the country
I thought I’d sent you one?
*checks email*
Year old message in drafts folder. I don’t think the photo in it does it justice! You’re going to have to wait until I’ve got a good one- it works where it is, but seemingly really hard to photograph well
Most of our stuff is mine as I need somewhere to store it but we change stuff about quite a bit. This is my most recent one and I am really in two minds about selling it but I feel that about a lot of my paintings initially. It is in the spare room at the moment bnut I look at it most days.
150cmx50cm Acrylic on stretched canvas.
This one has been in the main bedroom because the wife likes it (more than I do) and it is good in that position.
The close up shows it a little clearer. There is the red profile of a young ladies face but then the yellow outline of the same lady when older having weathered a lifetime of experience. If you look carefully at the back of the face of the young lady you can see the profile of an old man looking into the heads of both women.
In reference to my comment about colouring-in up there 👆, here’s in-situ
This Jon Tremaine is opposite where I'm sat, the more you look the more you see.
We also have Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons artwork with the daytime view in the room we use in the day and night scene in our evening room.
Apart from in the 'bike toilet' where there's loads of random bike-related stuff, most (90%) of the stuff on our walls is my own landscape paintings from various points in my life. Less ego than 'I make images that I want to look at so why wouldn't I hang them on my walls?'.
Might do some photos later.
A large admiralty chart of Loch Lomond, must be 100years old, its quite beautiful with its crosshatching moutnain shading and inset landscape view. It also has a tiny bit of graffiti from my mum or one of her brothers on it from their child hood being swallows and amazons.
A bonch off little watercolour sketches of flower arrangements from the local florist (her arrangements and her watercolours), we both loved the style so i sneaked in and bought all of them.
A painting of the cranes lifting the new dundee station arch into place in the middle of the night by my dad.
Various other bits and bobs been a bit lax putting stuff back on the wall since i moved in... 6 years ago.
On the wall you say?
Our daughter is a book designer (even put a picture of her old dad on the cover she did of a JK Galbraith book) and painted this muriel* for us.
(*obscure Hilda Ogden reference)
I have a Binners, a few paintings by Son1 (very talented but not motivated, sadly), a reproduction railway poster a few originals of my home town by local artists, a vintage map, a front page of the Daily Telegraph (I took the photo) and some cycling prints. Oh and a framed letter.
The railway poster appears behind me in online meetings 😌
It most certainly is. That painting has a style of it’s own. Love it.
I have a confession, that's not my son's work, I just stole it off
and now I feel bad because 1/ this is a serious thread with some proper art; and 2/ someone painted it, and it's not as bad as some I've seen. Including the cover piece for that FB page (Dear God!)
I actually have a Binners commission piece, of a 'coloured in' Clandon Park where I got married.
I did this one last year which is on the living room wall
And this I did in the eldest daughters bedroom
Also have quite a few originals from various artists I've picked up in small art studios around the country.
I love graffitti...
Took me a while but got a original Seen from his studio
And got this banksy from Croydon GDP ( well my son was handed it as they were only giving to kids)
What the heck is an “original print”? Surely it’s one or the other.
Printmaking is an art from in its own right - so an 'original print' in an etching, engraving, lithograph, woodcut or whatever produced by the artist - and also an artwork which in its original from is a print. Thats distinct from a reproduction of an artwork.
My dad was an artist so we have lots of his paintings on the walls, and also one of my mum's patchwork wall hangings.
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I'd save this before I saved the wife. Customer painted it for me 10-12 years ago.
I guess not really artwork but hangs on my wall. One of my most treasured items.
Most of what’s on the walls are posters, mostly music oriented.
This one’s a bit shabby, I took it off a wooden electricity substation door on my way home from the gig, all the there had been grabbed. It’s got a bit foxed over the years, but it is 48 years old! It was actually a warm-up gig prior to the album release, I saw them again about six months later at Bristol Colston Hall. This is on my bedroom wall.
Self explanatory, I didn’t get to the gig, but I managed to get hold of the poster, number 19/50. This is on the stairs wall.
As is this one…
And these two, signed reproductions of album sleeves. It was going to be part of the band getting back together, but Toni backed out, sadly; I absolutely love the band.
This one I was given by one of the lecturers at Bristol College School of Print and Design at Ashley Down. It’s a photo of one of the Tors on Dartmoor, done as a form of posterisation, but it involves something like fourteen separate plates, one for each different shade, litho printed as solids, no half-tone screen. Purely as an experiment, I’ve got two, the other one is all cold greys, and is stashed away somewhere. That’s around 40-odd years old as well.
A bugger getting a photo of this, just because of the reflections!
This is a new copy from original Rick Griffin artwork of a Filmore concert in San Francisco. I love Griffin’s artwork!
This tour poster was one of a few that Kris found stashed away, so she put them up on her site, and signed this one for me. She’ll be doing a short tour a bit later this year with her husband, so I can show her the photo. Each poster was a hand printed silk-screen, and it’s beautiful artwork.
This is an original record company advertising poster for the album release in 1973, I’ve got a smaller one that was a double-page spread in NME, but it’s on very cheap paper, and has gone very brown now.
This one is a print by Etsuko Montgomery, called ‘Dream Letter’ no 17/25, from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
I’d forgotten this one, up on the landing wall, original advertising poster from Virgin Records in Bristol, 1975.
GCSE art in the style of Charles Sheeler. He was originally told off for copying, until he pointed out it was his own work and the bridge post dated Sheeler’s death by about 70 years.
I’ve decided to undertake the full Bobby Sands remake/remodel.
I’ve decided to undertake the full Bobby Sands remake/remodel.
I bet it will be crap.
I'll get my coat.
